A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

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Alice Herz-Sommer was once born in 1903 in Prague—the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a circle of relatives friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was once one of the most best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world started to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was once legitimized. In 1942, Alice’s mother was once deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to be informed Chopin’s 24 Etudes—the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew—and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too—at the side of her husband and their six-year-old son—was once deported to a concentration camp. But even in Theresienstadt, music was once her salvation and throughout more than 100 concerts she gave her fellow prisoners hope in a world of pain and death. This is her remarkable story, but it’s also the story of a mother’s struggle to create a happy childhood for her beloved only son in the course of atrocity and barbarism. Of 15,000 children sent to the camp, Raphael was once one of the most 130 who survived. Today, Alice Herz-Sommer lives in London and she still plays the piano on a daily basis.

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